Topic: what's saddening you right now?

[The Shrub Dragon]

My mum loves Educating Rita.  I've never seen or read it, but I like some of Willy Russell's other work so idk.


worst i've read at school was journey to the river sea in year seven, which i'd already read and was just really boring both times imo

[Kerou 犠牲]

Jonny Wilkinson's putting on a masterclass right now

why does he have to retire? ;;

[sylar]

people trying to say elliot rodgers shooting a bunch of women for not sleeping with him isnt a feminist issue and basically trying to deny the fact that this was just one big solid case of male entitlement lol :')

"hes just sick in the head!" yeah youd like that to be the case wouldnt you

[Kerou 犠牲]

people trying to say elliot rodgers shooting a bunch of women for not sleeping with him isnt a feminist issue and basically trying to deny the fact that this was just one big solid case of male entitlement lol :')

"hes just sick in the head!" yeah youd like that to be the case wouldnt you

tbf it's an extreme reaction to male entitlement. There are loads of people who are in a similar boat to him and you don't see them pulling the trigger like that. Plus there are probably more issues to it than that...

[lets all go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes]

Plus there are probably more issues to it than that...

enlighten us then webbz

what "other issues" could possibly justify a bratty child of a man to murder women for nothing other than his own self-importance

[Kerou 犠牲]

what "other issues" could possibly justify a bratty child of a man to murder women for nothing other than his own self-importance

I dunno but being just a bratty child of a man wouldn't lead to that much murder in a regular circumstance

[Pam-the-Lamb]

 The guy could have felt humiliated or something, it could have been the only way he could have felt it was possible to get equal. I'll admit that I haven't even read about this so... eh, I don't really care about the case.


 
 It just hit me that I probably wont be able to meet up with any friends from college through the summer. It seems that the majority of them have social anxiety or want to get drunk. I don't drink so it's sucky.

[Kerou 犠牲]

The guy could have felt humiliated or something, it could have been the only way he could have felt it was possible to get equal. I'll admit that I haven't even read about this so... eh, I don't really care about the case.

Humiliation doesn't lead to murder though, or at least shouldn't.

[the bread dragon]

Humiliation doesn't lead to murder though, or at least shouldn't.

I dont think he was trying to justify it

[lets all go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes]

I dunno but being just a bratty child of a man wouldn't lead to that much murder in a regular circumstance

either you're backtracking or it was clumsy wording but it almost looked like you were somehow defending or sympathising with the dude

The guy could have felt humiliated or something, it could have been the only way he could have felt it was possible to get equal. I'll admit that I haven't even read about this so... eh, I don't really care about the case.

a dude takes out his frustrations on being generally unlikeable and thus unable to get girls by shooting them dead because its the girls' fault and not his, so the dude thinks/thought

its part of this whole patriachial values thing that still depressingly lingers, essentially the whole "dudes thinking they have god given rights to things purely cos of the small organ between their legs and throwing a tantrum when denied" thing

[sylar]

the guys also very anti-black racist as well as misogynistic
he followed the mens rights activism youtube channels and forums closely and absorbed everything they said

all this teaches anyone is that if youre a woman you sleep with dudes who ask you to sleep with them or risk death. thinking you have the right to murder a woman because she refuses to sleep with you or go out with you isnt an acceptable reaction to humiliation. thinking girls have to sleep with you because youre a white man is even less so.

theres no way to deny this is just blatant sexism or just the result of mental illness. he was mentally ill, sexist, misogynistic, and entitled, theres no way to justify what he did and the fact people are trying to by saying he just felt humiliated or is just mentally ill is actually a lot of whats wrong with this bs lol.

[Kerou 犠牲]

I dont think he was trying to justify it

I know, I was just highlighting the fact that in most circumstances humiliation wouldn't lead to that consequence

either you're backtracking or it was clumsy wording but it almost looked like you were somehow defending or sympathising with the dude

My post wasn't really clear I guess. I'd never defend anything like that lol

It's pretty clear that there was something wrong with him and his extreme views led him to that sort of action. Thought sylar's post initially was just blaming it on his views which judging by the last post wasn't the case.

Misinterpretations all round.

[Sebastian Moran]

six people (four men, two women) lost their lives to that guy. the police were apparently notified of his videos/intent about a week before it happened, but no action was taken. 
 
to be honest that's what pisses me off the most about this, aside from people using it as fuel for their agendas, which i'm seeing all over tumblr and similar places. 
 
that plus the one article which calls the pick-up artist forums he frequented "MRA sites" for some reason lets out a whole OTHER storm of people bickering due to their movement being dragged into it and i just. 

people are dead. people are dead because a twisted individual's warped view of the world led to him shooting and stabbing people. 
 
this is an individual whose name is all over the internet and who is becoming famous when nobody knows the name of his victims: hell, some people don't even know the gender of his victims. because they're not as exciting as trying to pin the blame of his agenda. 
i shouldn't be this annoyed/disheartened 
 
sorry for ranting, this isn't aimed at anyone in particular i guess. except for media sites? what's new
 

[Pam-the-Lamb]

 We don't need to take a "Tumblr Social Justice" stance because those people are, generally, cretins.

 It's going to be interesting to see how this story folds out over the month. What happens in these cases? Does anyone go to court or anything? It's pretty much set in stone that he's a murderer.
 
 

[Spriter]

We don't need to take a "Tumblr Social Justice" stance because those people are, generally, cretins.

 It's going to be interesting to see how this story folds out over the month. What happens in these cases? Does anyone go to court or anything? It's pretty much set in stone that he's a murderer.

The guy himself is dead, right? Not much you can do for that if the murderer is dead anyways.

Still, those who were killed...man. I'm not getting the fuss over the murderer. As SM said, he's becoming famous and his victims are pretty much unknown. Makes me a little sad really ._.